The History of the Saracens: Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors...Bell, 1875 - 512 pagina's |
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Pagina xxiii
... emperors , I believe , were ever proclaimed in such style as Ali . A great many other little incidents there are , very useful and entertaining in themselves , that may be properly enough inserted in writing a life , which would not so ...
... emperors , I believe , were ever proclaimed in such style as Ali . A great many other little incidents there are , very useful and entertaining in themselves , that may be properly enough inserted in writing a life , which would not so ...
Pagina 5
... emperor . † The Kaaba is properly the temple , but the whole territory of Mecca is held sacred , and distinguished by small turrets , some at seven and others at ten miles ' dis- tance from the city . Within these precincts it is not ...
... emperor . † The Kaaba is properly the temple , but the whole territory of Mecca is held sacred , and distinguished by small turrets , some at seven and others at ten miles ' dis- tance from the city . Within these precincts it is not ...
Pagina 51
... emperor , Heraclius . Heraclius received the letter respect- fully , and made some valuable presents to the messenger . He sent another to Makawkas , viceroy of Egypt , who returned in answer , he would consider of the proposals , and ...
... emperor , Heraclius . Heraclius received the letter respect- fully , and made some valuable presents to the messenger . He sent another to Makawkas , viceroy of Egypt , who returned in answer , he would consider of the proposals , and ...
Pagina 79
... emperor . After he was dead , the next care was to appoint a successor ; and it was indeed very ne- cessary that one should be provided as soon as possible . Their government and religion being both in their infancy , and a great many ...
... emperor . After he was dead , the next care was to appoint a successor ; and it was indeed very ne- cessary that one should be provided as soon as possible . Their government and religion being both in their infancy , and a great many ...
Pagina 90
... emperor , who awoke too late to a sense of their formidable power , when he saw them pouring in upon them like a torrent , and driving all before them . The proud Persian , too , who so very lately had been domineering in Syria , and ...
... emperor , who awoke too late to a sense of their formidable power , when he saw them pouring in upon them like a torrent , and driving all before them . The proud Persian , too , who so very lately had been domineering in Syria , and ...
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Pagina 263 - I have taken (said Amrou to the caliph) the great city of the west. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are impatient to seize the...